Content/DescriptionView showing fifteen miners, some holding tools, working along a rocky river bank. Mining machinery and diversion flume structure visible behind miners.
Details
Title
[Riverbed mining scene with fifteen miners, including Elmer Bliss.]
Published
ca. 1852-1858
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 8.8 x 12.1 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Another view, laterally reversed, of this mining site is in the collection of The Huntington Library (Dag. 55). The site has been identified as near Taylorsville, Plumas County, but the source of this information is unknown. <physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: plain rectangular (double elliptical).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: geometric / floral - variant of The Spear and Rod (Rinhart no. 166). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12.6 x 15.3 cm. Pad: red silk. Notes: spine label: 709 (from prior owner). Case and image package are not consistent, the case appearing to be from an earlier date.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Plate mark (UR): Scovill. Accompanying note (handwritten, modern): California Gold Mine. Elmer Bliss in rear dark shirt - hand on hip. Elmer Bliss came to Calif. from Havehill, N.H. in 1849.</physfacet>;;;
Contents
Image 2: [Riverbed mining scene with fifteen miners...] (Detail.)
Image 2: BANC PIC 1905.16242:084––DIG
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